Graphic shows Congressional Budget Office estimates of uninsured under the Affordable Care Act and Republican alternative. WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office report on a Republican health care bill has set off an intense reaction in Washington, and some on both sides of the debate are playing loose with the facts. Republicans are overlooking President […]
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The Buzz: Lewiston OKs Subway's site home and possible putting green
The Buzz this week isn’t going to let a blizzard get in the way, not when there’s Maine’s first potential Subway with a putting green and new manufacturing jobs to talk about. On Monday night, the Lewiston Planning Board unanimously approved a 1,860-square-foot Subway restaurant for the corner of Mollison Way and Main Street. City […]
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Fryeburg Academy’s Project Graduation hosting Marley
FRYEBURG — The Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center will host comedian Bob Marley at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 30. Marley, a Maine native, has been featured in his own special on Comedy Central and has performed on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” […]
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Tight budgets could complicate Sessions' vow to fight crime
In this Friday, March 10, 2017, photo, Oakland police detectives and FBI agents work together in the offices of the Oakland Safe Streets Task Force in Oakland, Calif. Standing at left is Oakland homicide detective Jason Turner. The federal government already plays a big role in fighting violent crime in cities, through grants and partnerships. […]
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'Hero' author does signing, workshop
FARMINGTON — Kendra Levin, author of “The Hero is You: Sharpen your Focus, Conquer Your Demons, and Become the Writer you were Born to Be,” will be at DDG Booksellers, at 7 p.m., Wednesday , March 15, for a book signing and writer’s workshop. Levin is executive editor at Penguin Young Readers Group and certified […]
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Everett, Wash., sues drugmaker for letting OxyContin flood black market
In this Feb. 16, 2017, photo, Robert Williamson, left, leans on a pole in front of his shelter in the woods as he talks with police Sgt. Mike Braley in Everett, Washington. As overdose deaths from opioids and heroin spiked the mayor of Everett took steps to tackle the epidemic devastating this working-class city north […]
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Hiroya Miura directs the orchestra in five works by four composers. Performing in pieces by Mendelssohn and Bach are two winners of this year’s Bates student concerto competition. Also: Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5 (“Reformation”); Chabrier’s “Espana, Rhapsody for Orchestra”; and Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 1. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 18, Olin Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. Free, […]
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Sizzlin' Shamrocks, Irish dinner at Governor's
LEWISTON — A group of young fiddlers known as the Sizzlin’ Shamrocks will be joined by other area folk musicians in a festive St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Governor’s Restaurant in Lewiston on Friday, March 17, from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The multi-age ensemble will entertain diners with a lively mix of Irish and French Canadian […]
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Gov. Paul LePage predicts Trump administration will re-certify Riverview
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Republican governor says he predicts the Trump administration will re-certify a state-run psychiatric hospital. Gov. Paul LePage said during a Tuesday call-in on WVOM-FM that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price is “very receptive” to the LePage administration’s case to re-certify Riverview Psychiatric Center. Riverview lost federal Centers for Medicare and […]
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Paul LePage says Dems blocked his efforts to fight opiate crisis
Gov. Paul LePage tore into Democrats on Tuesday for years of blocking his administration’s efforts to expand treatment options for opioid addicts, accusing them of warming to his proposals only when an election was approaching. The comments came during a wide-ranging and eventful radio interview this morning on WVOM after LePage was challenged by a guest host about how […]